Elias Crespin
{{Short description|Venezuelan artist}}
{{Infobox artist
| birth_date = 1965
| birth_place = Caracas, Venezuela
| style = Sculpture, kinetic art, robotic art
| notable_works = L'Onde du Midi, 2020, Louvre
| image = Elias Crespin.jpg
| caption = Elias Crespin with one of his works
}}
Elias Crespin (born 1965) is a Venezuelan kinetic artist. Crespin is known for his moving, motorized sculptures, made of series of suspended geometric elements that slowly evolve and unfold in the air. He lives in Paris.
Career
= ''L'Onde du Midi'' =
In 2019 he was commissioned by Jean-Luc Martinez, director of the Louvre Museum, Paris, to create a sculpture. This followed commissions to Georges Braque, Anselm Kiefer, Cy Twombly, and François Morellet. In January 2020, L'Onde du Midi was inaugurated, hovering over 19th century stairs on the North side of the Louvre Colonnade. The work is a succession of 128 aluminium tubes, painted blue, that undulates from order to chaos following an algorithmic choreography.{{Cite web |date=2019-12-17 |title=Un nouveau décor d'art contemporain signé Elias Crespin bientôt au Louvre |url=https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/musees/musee-louvre/un-nouveau-decor-dart-contemporain-signe-elias-crespin-bientot-au-louvre-11130327/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Connaissance des Arts |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |date=2020-01-20 |author=Valérie Duponchelle|title=Elias Crespin, l’art de la ligne au Louvre |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/arts-expositions/elias-crespin-l-art-de-la-ligne-au-louvre-20200120 |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2020-03-05 |title=Les chorégraphies cinétiques d’Elias Crespin {{!}} Gazette Drouot |url=https://www.gazette-drouot.com/article/les-choregraphies-cinetiques-d-elias-crespin/13583 |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Gazette Drouot |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2020-01-27|author=Marina Hémonet|title=Le Louvre s’ouvre à l’art cinétique |url=https://www.admagazine.fr/art/news/diaporama/le-louvre-souvre-a-lart-cinetique/59367 |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=AD Magazine |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2022-02-09 |title=Elias Crespin, one of two living artists displayed at the Louvre |url=https://www.laprensalatina.com/elias-crespin-one-of-two-living-artists-displayed-at-the-louvre/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=La Prensa Latina Media |language=en-US}}
Early life
He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
He started his career as an engineer and informatician. In 2000, he began experimenting with algorithms and motors to create "electrokinetic" sculptures. These led to his first piece, Malla electrocinética, in 2002.{{Cite web |author=Susana Salic |title=Elias Crespin |url=https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5d641d3490cc21cf7c0a4165/95/elias-crespin |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Artnexus |date=2015}}Virginie Chuimer-Layen, "Elias Crespin et la poésie de la cinétique", in La Gazette Drouot, n° 6, Feb. 15 2013
In 2008, he moved to Paris.Amélie Adamo, "Entretien avec Elias Crespin", in Art Absolument, n° 49, Sept-Oct. 2012
Bibliography
His works feature in permanent collections such as the Louvre, the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts{{Cite web |title=Equiláteros {{!}} All Works {{!}} The MFAH Collections |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/94828/equilateros |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=emuseum.mfah.org |language=en}}, Houston, El Museo del Barrio in New York, the MALBA in Buenos Aires, or the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing{{cite web |title=Elias Crespin {{!}} Fondation Guy & Myriam Ullens |url=https://ullens-foundation.com/artists/elias-crespin |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=ullens-foundation.com}}
Some of his works are permanently exhibited:
Louvre Museum Paris, France; Onde du Midi, 2020
[https://www.mal217.org/fr House of Latin America], Paris, France, Transparente 60, 2016
The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. Grand HexaNet, 2018 {{Cite web |last=Painter |first=Adrean |date=2024-02-07 |title=Soaring Sculpture Melding Art and Science Celebrates Nelson-Atkins 90th |url=https://nelson-atkins.org/soaring-sculpture-melding-art-science-celebrates-nelson-atkins-anniversary/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Nelson Atkins |language=en-US}}
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.; Equiláteros, 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Trianguconcéntricos, 2009
MALBA The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Malla Electrocinética II, 2009
Exhibition catalogues
- Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries, under the direction of Peter Weiermair, ZKM Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021 ISBN 9780262044868, 0262044862
- Artistes & Robots, under the direction of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and Jérôme Neutres, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2018 ISBN 9782711871094, 2711871096
- The Urge to create Visions...1929-2017, Center of Polish Sculpture, Radom, Poland, 2017
- De Nature en Sculpture, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 2017
- Slow Motion, Maison de l’Amérique Latine / Editions Hermann, Paris, France, 2017
- Geometrische Choreographien, Das Kleine Museum : Weissenstadt, Germany, 2015
- Elias Crespin, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France, 2014
- ''Elias Crespin. Temps suspendu, Galerie de la Marine, Nice, France, 2014
- Elias Crespin. Parallels, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York, NY, USA, 2012
- Elias Crespin. Hiperficies, Ars Longa, Paris, France, 2010
- Dynamo. Un siècle de mouvement et lumière dans l'art. 1913-2013, under the direction of Serge Lemoine, RMN, Paris, France, 2013 ISBN 9782711860500, 2711860507
- Turbulences II, Fondation Boghossian / Espace culturel Louis-Vuitton, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
- Turbulences, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, 2012
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